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  The Locusts Have No King (Paperback) By (author) Dawn Powell

  

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  Short Description for The Locusts Have No KingNo one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell. In this classic novel, she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the publishing industry. "(Powell) identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection".--Joseph Ferrandino, San Francisco Review of Books.
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  • Publisher: Steerforth Press
  • Published: 10 January 2000
  • Format: Paperback 303 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781883642426 ISBN 10: 1883642426
  • Sales rank: 504,523

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Full description for The Locusts Have No King

• No one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart. "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -"- Gore Vidal"